Today's LeTip meeting started off in celebration of Valentine's day with Dr Bakur playing his rendition of 'Love the One You're With'.  

Carol started the annual election process for the board of directors positions.  Nominations will be opening up soon, and we will be voting in March.  

Today's roundtable was led by Patty Sterling (www.pacificcoasttrust.com) on how to change your focus and bring new opportunities all around you into view.   She demonstrated this by having us look for brown things around the room, then having us close our eyes and remember all the red things.  Once you open your eyes, you start seeing all the things you didn't see when you were focused on brown.

We then broke up into small groups to work on simple habits that can help each other grow our businesses.  Some of the ideas shared included:

• Use your email signatures not only for your contact information, but also add a tagline to spark ideas.
• Blog.  Regularly. It's a great way to build up your reputation as an exert on your topic, stay current in people's minds, and it also helps you rank higher in the search engine results.
• Have a hand-off letter. “Now that you've finished setting up your bank account with Sue, here's a list of trusted people that new business owners tend to need.
• Twitter/Facebook Promotions, as well as email.  “Hey everyone, Patty's doing 10% off if you need to setup a trust.”
• Weekly power partner follow up.   For example, every week, Seth asks Kathy which parties she planned.  He makes a note to follow up with the weddings in a few months, when they might start thinking about more space.  Every week, Patty asks Seth which houses got sold.  She makes a note to follow up in 6 months when they might start being concerned about protecting their new home.  Every week, Kathy asks Patty, who she setup trusts for.  She makes a note of those with kids, who are going to need birthday parties planned.